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Weighing up to 300 pounds, orangutans are the worldest largest arboreal mammal and the second largest primates, after these apes:
Gorillas
93.1%
Chimpanzees
3.1%
Gibbons
1.8%
Bonobos
1.8%
Orangutans are endangered due to habitat loss, especially from the clearing of their rainforest habitat for this agricultural product
Palm Oil
82%
Beef
0.9%
Oranges
2%
Coffee
9.8%
Besides their greater size, male orangutans differ from females in having these:
Enlarged Cheekpads
81.3%
Sharp Claws
2%
Tusks
2.4%
Enlarged Buttocks Callus
11.1%
'Orangutan' translates to this in Malay:
Old Man of the Forest
80.8%
Red Grandfather
10.9%
The Ancestor
3.3%
The Lonely One
3.1%
Today, orangutans are endemic to only which two islands?
Borneo and Sumatra
80.6%
Borneo and Java
11.8%
Java and Papua
4%
Sumatra and Luzon
2.7%
Although orangutans are not native to India - and do not feature in the original book - many animated and CGI versions of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book' feature this orangutan
King Louie
80%
Balou
7.6%
Shere Khan
3.1%
Bagheera
4.7%
Orangutans are primarily frugivores (fruit eaters). They are known to be especially fond of this smelly fruit
Durian
79.3%
Papaya
11.1%
Passionfruit
3.6%
Mango
3.8%
Orangutans move through the trees by swinging with their arms. What is this method of locomotion called?
Brachiation
64.4%
Porpoising
4.5%
Cartwheeling
5.6%
Looping
22%
There are generally recognized as two (sometimes three) species of orangutan, all belonging to which genus?
Pongo
60.1%
Hylobates
15.8%
Pan
16.7%
Papio
7.1%
Orangutans display the longest interbirth interval of any primate. Youngsters may stay with their mothers for:
8 Years
48.1%
Life
12.5%
5 Years
18.9%
12 Years
16%
In this series of popular fantasy books books, the librarian of the Unseen University is a wizard who was long ago transformed into an orangutan
Discworld
45%
Harry Potter
15.4%
Vampire Academy
11.6%
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
22.9%
A knife-weilding orangutan features in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' a detective/horror story by:
Edgar Allan Poe
44.8%
H. P. Lovecraft
11.1%
Stephen King
16.3%
Arthur Conan Doyle
22.5%
Ken Allen, from this zoo, was a famed escape artist, who escaped from his enclosure several times to go exploring the zoo.
San Diego Zoo
42.8%
London Zoo
13.4%
Bronx Zoo
19.8%
St. Louis Zoo
19.2%
Orangutans move through the treetops using their very long arms. The armspan of a big male orangutan can measure:
8 Feet
37.4%
6 Feet
15.4%
10 Feet
25.6%
12 Feet
17.8%
Much of our knowledge of orangutans comes from this pioneering biologist, who was sent to study orangutans by famed anthropologist Louis Leakey.
Birute Galdikas
33%
Jane Goodall
24.3%
George Schaller
18.9%
Dian Fossey
18.3%
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